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100 YEARS AGO June 6, 1918
FORT SMITH — An echo to the strike of operators of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company last September is to be heard in the United States District Court Tuesday, when Porter Ford, former president of the Fort Smith Central Trades and Labor Council; Henry Carnahan, president of the local union of street railway employees; John Buell and Jack Adams are placed on trial on charges of contempt of court. They are alleged to have violated an injunction Judge Frank A. Youmans granted the telephone company to restrain interference with its operations.
50 YEARS AGO June 6, 1968
The Arkansas Supreme Court refused late Tuesday to order Earl Mason of Izard County released from custody in his dispute with the trustees of the Spring Creek Methodist Church. However, the Court said this did not prevent Mason from applying to Chancellor P.S. Cunningham of Walnut Ridge for release. Mason was jailed more than two weeks ago after Judge Cunningham held him in contempt of court. Mason was held in contempt for not obeying an order by Judge Cunningham to remove a pump and their possessions from a spring that the trustees of the Methodist Church claim. Mason has disrupted the ownership of the property for several years.
25 YEARS AGO June 6, 1993
BELLA VISTA — After attaining last year’s goal of raising $1 million to fight cancer, the Phillips Charity Classic decided to try it again. The eighth annual classic, set for Thursday through Monday, June 14, in Bella Vista, will feature 150 professional athletics, entertainers, and actors competing in golf, tennis, and fishing, as well as three new contests — a celebrity/ media softball game, and archery and trapshooting tournaments. “The classic has grown tremendously each year,” Debbie Dossey, its director, said.
10 YEARS AGO June 6, 2008
Nine unregistered pit bulls, including one penned up in the backyard of a Little Rock School Board member, were seized from six homes Thursday by Animal Services officers. The seizures took place 15 days after a new ordinance requiring all pit bulls in the city be registered took effect. Instead of banning dogs commonly called pit bulls, as other cities in Pulaski County have done, Little Rock deemed them as potentially dangerous. “People need to know we’re serious about enforcing this ordinance,” said Tracy Roark, the city’s Animal Services manager.